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Australia - Kim Teer, 18, Melbourne, Vic, 8th January 1979

Personal Details

Last seen: Monday, 08 January 1979

Year of birth: 1961

Complexion:Fair

Gender: Female

Circumstances

Kim TEER has not been seen since August 1979. Kim had been spending the year backpacking around Australia with her border collie, Crosby. She had made her way to Melbourne from her hometown of North Haven in New South Wales and was due to travel to South Australia when she disappeared. Police would like to hear from anyone who may have met Kim or has any information regarding her disappearance.

Ms Hawkins said she accepted police advice that Kim's friends, Russell Triggs and Gwynneth Clifton, were not suspects in the disappearance despite an argument between the two girls before Kim left the flat.

"I consider it most likely that Ms Teer died as a result of the involvement of an unidentifiable person or persons, probably whilst engaging in the high-risk activity of hitch-hiking," Ms Hawkins said.

'She just vanished off the face of the earth': The 17-year-old who went missing on the trip of a lifetime around Australia and 35 years later her family are still hoping for answers

Kim Teer was on the trip of a lifetime backpacking around Australia when her mother last heard from her.

Kim, who was weeks away from her 18th birthday, had written to her mother, Colleen Holding, asking her to send a copy of her birth certificate so she could get a driver's license. Colleen never heard from her daughter again.